Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Peter Toney, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Peter Toney registered to vote in Fayette County on July 15, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 23 years in Texas, 14 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 23 years
- In Texas
- 14 years
- In the county
- 9 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1844 to 1870
Peter Toney
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Peter Toney
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- July 15, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 23 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 14 years
- Years in the precinct
- 14 years
- Years in Texas before Fayette County
- 9 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
9 yearsPeter Toney reported 9 years more in Texas than in Fayette County.
Other freedmen named Toney in Fayette County
- Isaac Toneyborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1861
Toneys elsewhere in Texas
Sources
This entry comes from the 1867 to 1870 Texas voter registration, the Texas Secretary of State registration lists held by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. It sits on page 11 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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